https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/myth-check-was-hitler-a-vegetarian/ Yeah you’re right later in life he identifies as one however still ate meat his chef fed him so the claim is dubious at best and may have been propergander for the war effort.

He wasn’t, it’s well documented he wasn’t vegetarian this was spread as anti vegetarian propegand.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30909722/ This meta analysis shows that dairy doesn’t help rates of osteoporosis and hip fraractures.

Interesting. Oddly enough the lowest rates of osteoporosis occur in countries with the lowest rates of dairy consumption and there appears to be evidence that it could be causal.

OK I’ll bite, surely there is no legit reason for this…

They are ace! Extremophiles are so interesting. One of the most prolific species on the planet and they are being considered as a potential to help terraform planets such as Mars https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334603822_The_Lichen_Symbiosis_Lichen_Extremophiles_and_Survival_on_Mars

I came for the vegan comment however as it was already there, the biggest change I could see from mass adoption of the vegan ideals are that the population would have an across the world increase in empathy to not only animals but because they aren’t murdered as part of societal norms the empathy towards and the treatment of humans is likely to increase as well. This could theoretically lead to an increase in environmental action helping climate change but also help addressed a number of socialogical issues at the same time. We are a long way from this however in the uk veganism has increased 1567% in 10 years so with this rate of change it is possible.

To be honest I’m not sure. The increase I have seen has been across all ethnicitys, mostly younger people though.

Oddly enough I’ve had more people I’m interested in not want kids than do.

Yeah, you’re right it’s a different thing to doing it in cities, cooking is important. In my experience, I have lots of vegan rural friends however that’s due to my social circle and isn’t representive. In the uk apparently we are on 4.7% vegan now (1567% increase in 10 years) its become noticeably more over the last few years but probably not to the same level as cities.

vegan here who grew up on farms. Just because you don’t know them doesn’t mean they aren’t common.

na not last night. that was fucking incredible!

Been enjoying your comments here. Hopefully the hiatus isn’t too long.

I really hope we can evolve past seeing animals as food.

Fuck your Honda civic ;)

So crazy that they just get a small fine for such large scale environmental damage. There should be prison sentences!

It’s such an afront to democracy that the ruling party was allowed to change the years they are in power from 4 to 5. We would have had that election by now…

So whilst you are right that transport does create lots of emissions it is still only a small percentage of the total. Any localy produced meats would have a higher footprint than legumes from anywhere. A localy based food system would be great but to get that we would need mass land ownership reform.

Vegan is the answer to what this should be.

Only 69% left to sort out. Nice! Glad to see positive steps hopefully the rest of the world gets on board.